Posted on 12/08/2012 12:58:57 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
Israel's military police are investigating the theft of F-16 fighter plane engines from an military base in central Israel, with the military suspecting that the thieves had inside help. The F-16C/D 'Barak' jets were undergoing repairs.
The base commander contacted the military police after discovering the engines missing. There were no details how many engines or engine parts were stolen but the radio report said the estimated worth is the millions of dollars.
The thieves seems to have been assisted by someone within the base. Among other things, there is the fact that there was no damage to the base's perimeter fence. This leads investigators to believe that the thieves went in and out through the gates. This would have to be done with a large vehicle, since the engines weigh over 1.5 tons and are more than 15 feet long.
No suspects have been arrested yet but the most likely possibility is that the engines were stolen by Arab metal thieves, weapons dealers or terror-related agents. The theft marks a low point in its ability to secure its own bases.
In July, Bedouin metal thieves infiltrated the IDF base at Tze'elim in the Negev and stole crates of ammunition, which the IDF insists were empty. The Bedouins entered the base on SUVs.
In May, two bullet-proof military jeeps were stolen from the Ketziot base in southern Israel. The jeeps both carried military equipment.
In January, the theft of 1,500 tank shells from an IDF munitions base in the South was reported. Several people have been charged, and the Military Police launched an investigation against commanders and soldiers suspected of involvement in the huge theft.
In a similar incident last year, the Israeli military police conducted an investigation after parts for F-15s and F-16s belonging to an airbase near Tel Aviv were found when police searched a warehouse used by scrap metal merchants.
[Editorial note: Some sources currently state that only parts of the engine were stolen.]
Such a ray of pure clarity is always a relief from the fetid, swirling miasma of propaganda and ignorance that gets churned out daily by the media news organizations.
Even with a thousand knives to their throats they pull this, and do you know why..? Because they know we take seriously the part of the Bible that says God smiles on those who help Israel. In fact they know we take it so seriously that we would continue to do so even to our detriment, and for a long time, too.
Israel considers the USA as a pack of slobbering rich goyim suckers who DESERVE to get fleece.
Even with chem shells to the north loaded and nukes being assembled to the east they STILL devote mindshare to the question, “How might I screw over my erstwhile buddy...?”
They DESERVE Barack Obama and maybe even their bad neighbors...?
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Damn scrappers, looks like Israel has them too.....
F-16 engines disappear, but if one goes down in a bombing raid on Syria or Iran, or both, plausible deniability?
I suggest they check out the Bonneville salt flats in the next week or two.....I think there is a crew trying to set the land speed record for a Winnebago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJAgUBEQdw
What's Hebrew for "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!" ?
I think I read a “Darwin Award” story about this very car.
Well, they tried again to make one to jump — and it had the standard Mythbusters ending: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hru0z9WJwKo
Start at 1:15
I bought it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost me a dime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riRAGzNzvQ
I got it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost me a dime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riRAGzNzvQ
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If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Can they sell it or can they only get scrap value from it. My guess is the latter.
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